Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-03-08 Thread Venkataraman, Meenakshi
Hi Shannon and others, First up, my sincere apologies for not responding earlier. I've been swamped with other work, and have had a chance to look at this only now. I just got caught up with the email thread, and it appears that you're seeing a problem with the following configuration most

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-03-07 Thread Shannon Dealy
Thought I should note that the addition of pcie_aspm=off to my command line has not cured my link problems, but it has changed the behavior of the problems. It is now more likely to recover on its own without me reloading the driver and when I do reload the driver, it is far more likely to

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-03-07 Thread Shannon Dealy
Thought I should note that the addition of pcie_aspm=off to my command line has not cured my link problems, but it has changed the behavior of the problems. It is now more likely to recover on its own without me reloading the driver and when I do reload the driver, it is far more likely to

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Bjørn Mork
Juha Jäykkä ju...@iki.fi writes: One thing just occurred to me: I added 2 GB of memory (total 4 GB) at about the time these problems started. I cannot say for sure the problems did not start earlier, but it is quite possible they started after! (Please do not tell Lenovo that I added the

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Juha Jäykkä
that the memory slots and mini-pcie slots are behind the same cover in the X201 as well? Replugging it seems like a good idea... I wish they were! They are in X4? and X30? but not X200s, where I had to remove the keyboard and handrest to get to the card. Most annoying. Nevertheless, the RAM

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Juha Jäykkä ju...@iki.fi writes: One thing just occurred to me: I added 2 GB of memory (total 4 GB) at about the time these problems started. I cannot say for sure the problems did not start earlier, but it is quite possible they started after! (Please

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Juha Jäykkä wrote: that the memory slots and mini-pcie slots are behind the same cover in the X201 as well? Replugging it seems like a good idea... I wish they were! They are in X4? and X30? but not X200s, where I had to remove the keyboard and handrest to get to the

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 21:09 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: [...] Actually, a RAM upgrade can most definitely have an impact. Replacing any hardware on the bus changes bus loads, propagation delays and overall timing of the bus. [...] Unfortunately, I'm not current on the hardware/buses

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-29 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 21:09 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: [...] Actually, a RAM upgrade can most definitely have an impact. Replacing any hardware on the bus changes bus loads, propagation delays and overall timing of the bus. [...] Unfortunately, I'm

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 23:48 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 17:59 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: [...] some point, outside software MUST be providing bogus information to the driver. I say this because after the deep sleep bug

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: [snip] No, wasn't even aware of its existance. System shows it is currently at default unfortunately, the debug kernel I am currently running has the pcie_aspm regression which prevents it from being changed without rebooting which is rather time

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Juha Jäykkä
For a complete power-cycle, you may need to remove both the power cord and the battery. I don't think the Intel wireless cards have any Sure, I did: detach the cord and battery, wait ten minutes, then plug them back in. No use. The log messages you sent are indicative of a total failure of

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Juha Jäykkä wrote: [snip] I never had any issues with hibernate or suspend and certainly neither was ever needed to trigger the bug. For example yesterday, I hit the bug after about 3 hours without ever putting the laptop off my lap meanwhile. It wasn't required to

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Juha Jäykkä
It wasn't required to trigger the problem on my system either, but it seemed to happen a lot more often in the first few minutes after coming out of hibernation. Sorry, what I meant to say is that not hibernating does not help me at all. an illusion due to the irratic nature of the problem).

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Juha Jäykkä wrote: [snip] Shannon: FWIF, I have now rebooted with pci_aspm=off and we'll see what happens. Ben: I also replugged the wifi card. I have also rebooted with pci_aspm=off, and while it has only been a few hours, I have not seen any of the usual irratic

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 22:31 +, Juha Jäykkä wrote: For a complete power-cycle, you may need to remove both the power cord and the battery. I don't think the Intel wireless cards have any Sure, I did: detach the cord and battery, wait ten minutes, then plug them back in. No use.

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 17:59 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: [...] While the firmware may play a role in the problem, at its core, there are issues that must be occurring outside the firmware or even the iwlagn driver, namely a kernel bug or bug in a supporting driver - there is simply no way

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-25 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 17:59 -0800, Shannon Dealy wrote: [...] some point, outside software MUST be providing bogus information to the driver. I say this because after the deep sleep bug occcurs and the hardware has been power cycled (through

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-24 Thread Juha Jäykkä
tried at least 5 different versions. I have almost completely stopped using hibernate (suspend only) on my system and have not seen the problem in a long time and for my system at least, hibernate seems to be related I never thought it was a firmware issue before, so I never paid any

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-23 Thread Juha Jäykkä
0.35, and if I still see this, I will go back to ~0.30 to see if that fixes the issue. Down to 0.33, no help if running kernel 3.2. Now testing 0.33 2.6.39... -Juha -- --- | Juha Jäykkä, ju...@iki.fi

Bug#628444: Info received (iwlagn - MAC is in deep sleep, cannot restore wifi operation)

2012-02-23 Thread Shannon Dealy
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Juha Jäykkä wrote: Replying to myself, really, but two new observations: There were no problems in the 2.6-series. The bug occurs at least in the Debian kernel versions 3.2.0-1-amd64, 3.0.0-2-amd64, and 3.0.0-1-amd64. As much as I thought and hoped this was true, it is